1873 in Scotland

Events from the year 1873 in Scotland.

Law officers

 * Lord Advocate – George Young
 * Solicitor General for Scotland – Andrew Rutherfurd-Clark

Judiciary

 * Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Glencorse
 * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Moncreiff

Events

 * March – Robert Fleming & Co. founded by Robert Fleming in Dundee as a series of investment trusts including the Scottish American Investment Company (co-founded with William Menzies)
 * 3 March – the Scottish Rugby Union is formed as the Scottish Football Union
 * 13 March – the Scottish Football Association is formed, the world's second national football association
 * 15 November – statue to Greyfriars Bobby erected in Edinburgh
 * Edinburgh Evening News first published
 * Lexicographer James Murray publishes Dialect of the Southern Counties of Scotland
 * George and James Weir move their new pump manufacturing and general engineering business, predecessor of the Weir Group, to Glasgow

Births

 * 8 April – James Drever, psychologist (died 1950)
 * 13 April – James Salmon, architect (died 1924)
 * 6 July – George Aitken Clark Hutchison, Scottish Unionist MP for Midlothian and Peebles Northern (1922–23, 1924–28) (died 1928)

Deaths

 * 24 February – Thomas Guthrie, Free Church preacher and philanthropist (born 1803)
 * 8 March – Robert William Thomson, engineer, inventor of the bicycle tyre (born 1822)
 * 1 May – David Livingstone, pioneer medical missionary (born 1813)
 * 2 October – John Cunningham, architect (born 1799)
 * 27 October – Janet Hamilton, poet (born 1795)
 * Hugh Fraser, retailer (born 1815)